Ralph Whitbeck Moving from a server side plugin to a cloud add-on requires a different level of skills. Developer Evangelist for the Atlassian Ecosystem, Ralph Whitbeck, will share the common challenges developers face when shifting to the cloud, and show how you can successfully get your connect add-on over the finish line.

1. RALPH WHITBECK • DEVELOPER EVANGELIST • ATLASSIAN • @REDWOLVES
Getting your Connect add-on
over the finish line

5. Atlassian Connect

6. Building Add-ons
requires a different
set of processes

7. It’s a service!

8. Become an
Atlassian Super Fan

9. Monitor your
system

10. Hosting Options

11. Learning Curve

12. Developing
Add-ons with
real world solutions

13. Shailesh Mangal
CTO and Vice President of Engineering

14. Shailesh Mangal
CTO and Vice President of Engineering

15. Architecture

17. What technology stack did you choose and
why?

18. What factors led to your decision of hosting
with Amazon Web Services?

19. Can you walk us through how you set up the
architecture of your service?

24. Development Tools

25. You’re using tools like Elastic Search, React,
and Play in your service, what are some
pro’s and con’s to these tools compared to
similar tools?

26. Does AWS provide any tools that you’re
utilizing?

27. You’re also using Docker, how does Docker
make development easier?

28. Deployment
Strategies

29. How are deployments different with Connect
add-ons compared to plugins 2?

30. Walk us through the process of a typical
deployment.

31. Support System

32. One of the support systems you build for
your service is monitoring. In addition to off
the shelf monitoring tools you actually build
your own monitoring. What additional
monitoring are you doing?

34. With hundreds or thousands of customers in
the cloud, you need to focus your
development on Multi-tenancy. What were
some of the tools you used to ensure your
service focused on Multi-tenants safely?

35. What are some considerations regarding
tenant data when hosting a multi-tenant
application one should consider?

36. What are some challenges that developers
might face when developing Connect
add-ons?

37. Thank you
RALPH WHITBECK • DEVELOPER EVANGELIST • ATLASSIAN • @REDWOLVES

38. Questions?
RALPH WHITBECK • DEVELOPER EVANGELIST • ATLASSIAN • @REDWOLVES

39. Getting your Connect add-on over the finish line
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